There will be two Masses celebrated on Thanksgiving Day which include a Mass at 8:15 am at St. Paul Cathedral and a 10:00 am Mass at St. Rosalia site. Please note that there will be no 12:05 pm Mass on Thanksgiving Day. The St. Paul Cathedral Parish Office will be closed on Thursday, November 26 and Friday, November 27 in observance of Thanksgiving Day. The office will reopen at 9:00 am on Monday, November 30.

Faithful citizenship requires Catholics to exercise their right to vote and uphold the teachings of their faith in voting. Pope Pius XII in 1946 spoke of the exercise of the right to vote as "an act of grave moral responsibility," arguing that "in the present circumstances" any Catholic who failed to vote due to weakness or laziness committed "a sin grave in itself, a mortal fault." This teaching of the Church is even more urgent today as we face serious issues and concerns in our country. We Catholics in the U.S. are not first and foremost Republicans or Democrats. Nor are we first and foremost Americans, or citizens of whichever country in which we happen to be living...